9.13.2014

Name: Kent TekulveTeam: Pittsburgh PiratesPosition: PitcherValue of card: 6 ounces of the part of a pirate's peg leg that touches the stumpKey 1980 stat: 20 stars on his Little League hatIt's time for The Caption, which we're sure did not run in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in the early 1980s: "Kent Tekulve, center, does a funky chicken dance on the mound while wearing aviator shades, one of the best baseball caps of all time and a uniform that blinded 12 fans who were already blind after throwing a sidearm slurve for the Pirates against the New York Mets at Three Rivers Stadium on a sweltering June day with 98 percent humidity made hotter by Tekulve's school-bus-yellow jersey and pants in Pittsburgh on Wednesday."

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